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| Druridgia A.S. Donkin 1861, pg. 13 | |
| Generitype | T: Druridgia geminata A. Donkin 1861 |
| Designated by | Donkin, A.(000278) |
| Year Designated | 1861 |
| Nomenclatural status | valid |
| Recent revisions | |
| Comments | Type by original designation (also monotypic). Round, Crawford & Mann (1990) say about the type: "D. geminata Donkin, Nom. superfl. (= D. compressa (T. West) H.L. Smith). Indeed, Donkin indicates on p. 13 that "in the previous number of this journal Mr. West has described and figured (vol. viii, Pl. VII, fig. 11) a form, under the name of Podosira ? compressa, which seems, from his description, to be identical with Druridgia geminata; if so, Mr. West has represented the puncta to be much and more distinct than they ought to be. So much so, that I feel assured that specimens could not be identified by his figure." P. Compère (pers. com., 1998), on the other hand, wrote: "I do not think that these comments by Donkin mean that he definitely included P.? compressa in D. geminata". Our interpretation is to consider D. geminata a legitimate name. |
| Published in |
Donkin, A.S. 1861 (ref. 278) On the marine Diatomaceae of Northumberland with a description of several new species Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, new series, London, Vol:1, 1-15, pl. I |